Append content with Python to an existing Wiki Page via REST API

[Gadi Tabak]

I'm trying to append content to an existing confluence wiki page. So far, I can see only PUT exists and it overwrites the whole page.

I also tried to pull the existing content, then append the changes automatically locally and then push again but for some reason, all the emojis/icons replaced with a blue star...

Extract data for edit:

response = requests.get("https://<compnay>.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/" + page_id + "?type=blogpost&start=0&limit=10&expand=body.view",
                        auth=(email, apitoken), verify=False)

The PUT code example:

new_headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

data = r'{"id":"' + page_id + '",' \
       '"type":"page",' \
       '"title":"' + page_title + '",' \
       '"space":{"key":"' + workspace + '"},' \
       '"body":{"storage":' \
       '{"value":"' \
       '' + full_code + '<p />",' \
       '"representation":"storage"}},"version":{"number":' + str((int(version_number) + 1)) + '}}'

response = requests.put('https://<company>.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/'+page_id, headers=new_headers,
                        data=data, auth=(email, apitoken))

Which brings up 2 questions:

More Important: How is it possible to append content to an existing wiki page, without overwriting or deleting the existing content within it?
Less Important: Why the emojis changed to blue star? How can I avoid it?

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Accepted solution]

Hi! 

@Gadi Tabak  could you fetch in  &expand=body.storage instead of 

&expand=body.view

 ?

Then you can do concatenation and push data.

I hope next example will help you

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/blob/master/atlassian/confluence.py#L1217

https://github.com/atlassian-api/atlassian-python-api/blob/master/atlassian/confluence.py#L1276

Cheers,

Gonchik

[Gadi Tabak]

Well, it seems I was checking body.view instead of body.storage the whole time. This is the source to my mistake.

What I eventually did is to fetch the data from body.storage, then manipulated it with re Python library and sent it again to modify the page.

Thank you Gonchik for giving me this lead.

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov]

You're welcome!